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Hosting the Stranger $90 Hosting the Stranger features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. By gathering thinkers from different religious traditions around the same timely topic of what it means to “host the stranger,” this text enacts the hospitality it investigates, facilitating a hopeful and constructive dialogue between the world’s major religions. The first part of the volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. The second part is divided equally between the five different religious perspectives on hosting the stranger, with two thinkers representing each religion. Together these essays remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality, and more importantly, they testify to its ongoing possibility. |
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Old Time Radio From The Screen Guild Theater
The Screen Guild Theater was among the top variety shows of its time in Hollywood. No other show was able to bring together so much talent at one time. The show was never ever in the same form, and it was this variety that allowed the show to run from 1939 for 13 years.
With charitable roots, the show started out as a money-raising opportunity. Many famous faces that starred in the show gave their earnings to the Motion Picture Relief Fund. The Motion Picture Country House was a success thanks to the $800,000 raised from actors starring in the show.
The facility was built for helping out retired actors that needed something more secure in their later years, possibly due to becoming poorer. Raising money for other actors' benefit was a very attractive proposition and so many massive Hollywood stars featured.
From its inception in 1939 the show was hosted by George Murphy. Following that, Roger Pryor took the reigns in 1940. Old Time Radio adaptations of the movies of the day soon replaced the initial show format. The shows were very popular with the most famous celebrities of Hollywood.
Guests included Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Jimmy Cagney, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and Bing Crosby to name a few. While the show became wildly popular, it wasn't always so.
In its first production year, the show did not have the best fit. Even though the big stars were commonplace, even their guest appearances were not enough to push in an absolute success. The introduction of a new host Roger Pryor helped to smooth it out and make it into something worth listening to.
In 1942, Gulf pulled out as the show's sponsor, due to the oil industry suffering from the effects of World War 2. But it wasn't long before a new sponsor was soon brought in. So Lady Esther started sponsoring the show and with it a new format was introduced.
Old Time Radio shows were soon used commonly to create adaptations of classic movies. Movies were modified into shorter script versions lasting about half an hour. The likes of Humphrey Bogart and Betty Davis were just some of the top-flight Hollywood stars to appear on the show. The Screen Guild Theater show was the show to be on, and drew in plenty of famous faces.
On June 29, 1952 the Screen Guild Theater signed off the airways. Hundreds of recordings were stored so there's plenty more enjoyment to be had of these once live shows. In fact more than 200 shows can be heard from this era. The Screen Guild Theater was the biggest show of the day and always brought together the biggest stars of Hollywood.